Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Scotland · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Lanarkshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Lanarkshire website
30,226 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland. Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland – Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. Data is indicative and may not contain the latest designations.
South Allerton Farm Jackton
Received 16 Nov 2007Bertram House Bertram Avenue Carnwath
Received 19 Nov 2007Bertram House Bertram Avenue Carnwath, ML11 8LF
Received 19 Nov 2007Former Roads Depot Carlisle Road Crawford
Received 19 Nov 200711 Queensway East Kilbride
Received 16 Nov 200711 Queensway East Kilbride
Received 16 Nov 200795 Grenville Drive Cambuslang
Received 30 Oct 200748 Avon Road Larkhall
Received 29 Oct 20071 Fairhill Crescent Hamilton
Received 29 Oct 200725 The Beeches Blackwood ML11 9YR
Received 8 Nov 200730 Calder Street Blantyre
Received 16 Oct 200742 Camnethan Street Stonehouse
Received 16 Oct 200755 Butterburn Park Hamilton
Received 16 Oct 200715 Strachan Place West Craigs Blantyre
Received 21 Dec 20073 Cheviot Road Larkhall
Received 21 Dec 200710 Sydney Place Westwood East Kilbride
Received 21 Dec 200713 Newton Road Strathaven
Received 21 Dec 2007West Rogerton Farm Cairnmuir Road East Kilbride
Received 20 Dec 2007Plot 1 Climpy Road Forth
Received 20 Dec 20078A Carron Place East Kilbride
Received 20 Dec 20074 Pierowall Court Strathaven
Received 20 Dec 200710 Bellefield Crescent Lanark
Received 19 Dec 2007Annfield Cottage Glassford Strathaven
Received 13 Dec 2007Units 1 & 4 Wyndales Farm Symington
Received 8 Oct 2007Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
Planning procedures in Scotland differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Lanarkshire, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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